Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 80 80
Rank change year-on-year -20 0 -27
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,078 1,741 2,307
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.83% 3.51% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 3.96% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,424 827 1,391
10th Percentile £45,543 £51,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,291 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +14.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £93,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,683 43,966 63,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.91% 88.62% 80.92%
Number of salaries quoted 57,515 24,838 36,851
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.37%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -26 1,794 £75,000 - 1,301
UK excluding London -28 1,144 £67,500 -3.57% 634
Work from Home -23 852 £67,500 -3.57% 2,145
London -17 785 £85,000 +6.25% 847
North of England -44 371 £75,000 +7.14% 182
South East +41 323 £65,000 -7.14% 133
North West -54 198 £77,500 +10.71% 93
South West -18 137 £63,750 +6.25% 69
Midlands -49 107 £69,310 -0.99% 64
North East +19 96 £65,000 +49.86% 26
Yorkshire -11 77 £69,310 -0.99% 65
West Midlands -39 77 £80,000 +14.29% 38
Northern Ireland -17 70 £60,000 +33.33% 35
Wales -21 66 £62,500 +20.19% 12
East of England -45 37 £60,100 -3.84% 53
Scotland -48 37 £60,000 -23.23% 92
East Midlands -59 30 £65,000 - 25
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 43 (2.07%) Confluence
2 31 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 19 (0.91%) Apache
4 15 (0.72%) CMS
5 13 (0.63%) IIS
6 11 (0.53%) Camunda
7 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.34%) JBoss
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.34%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Drupal
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.14%) DNN
12 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.096%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.048%) Eikon
4 1 (0.048%) RMDS
4 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,058 (50.91%) AWS
2 874 (42.06%) Azure
3 322 (15.50%) GCP
4 262 (12.61%) Serverless
5 258 (12.42%) GitHub
6 194 (9.34%) SaaS
7 180 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
8 149 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
9 122 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
10 121 (5.82%) Amazon S3
10 121 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 101 (4.86%) GitHub Copilot
12 94 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
13 88 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
14 75 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
15 68 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
16 64 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
17 58 (2.79%) Azure AKS
18 51 (2.45%) PaaS
19 50 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.40%) Broadband
2 21 (1.01%) Network Security
3 13 (0.63%) DMARC
4 12 (0.58%) DNS
4 12 (0.58%) MQTT
5 9 (0.43%) AMQP
5 9 (0.43%) HTTP
6 8 (0.38%) VPN
7 7 (0.34%) Internet
8 6 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.29%) RFID
8 6 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.19%) Firewall
10 3 (0.14%) DHCP
10 3 (0.14%) LTE
10 3 (0.14%) NAS
10 3 (0.14%) SAN
11 2 (0.096%) SSL
12 1 (0.048%) Wireless
12 1 (0.048%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (14.77%) MongoDB
2 225 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (9.62%) NoSQL
4 165 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 152 (7.31%) Elasticsearch
6 112 (5.39%) SQL Server
7 111 (5.34%) MySQL
8 92 (4.43%) Relational Database
9 65 (3.13%) Redis
10 58 (2.79%) DynamoDB
11 43 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.54%) Big Data
13 18 (0.87%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.72%) Pinecone
14 15 (0.72%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.58%) Db2
15 12 (0.58%) DTS
16 9 (0.43%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
17 8 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 284 (13.67%) Git
2 187 (9.00%) GitLab
3 161 (7.75%) Jenkins
4 64 (3.08%) JIRA
4 64 (3.08%) JUnit
5 63 (3.03%) TeamCity
6 54 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 41 (1.97%) Cypress.io
8 37 (1.78%) Mockito
9 36 (1.73%) Maven
10 31 (1.49%) Claude Code
11 26 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 24 (1.15%) Selenium
13 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
13 17 (0.82%) Spock
14 14 (0.67%) JMeter
14 14 (0.67%) Postman
15 13 (0.63%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.58%) Vite
17 9 (0.43%) CircleCI
General
1 534 (25.70%) Finance
2 416 (20.02%) Social Skills
3 232 (11.16%) Public Sector
4 193 (9.29%) Banking
5 161 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 155 (7.46%) Law
7 144 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
8 122 (5.87%) Retail
9 87 (4.19%) Legal
10 80 (3.85%) Financial Institution
11 60 (2.89%) Marketing
12 58 (2.79%) Back Office
13 41 (1.97%) Aerospace
14 36 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.44%) Games
16 28 (1.35%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.87%) Advertising
18 17 (0.82%) Front Office
19 12 (0.58%) Aviation
20 11 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 763 (36.72%) Developer
2 501 (24.11%) Senior
3 375 (18.05%) Software Engineer
4 359 (17.28%) Lead
5 317 (15.26%) Architect
6 198 (9.53%) .NET Developer
7 189 (9.10%) Senior Developer
8 163 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 163 (7.84%) Java Developer
9 134 (6.45%) Java Engineer
10 127 (6.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 125 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
12 109 (5.25%) Solutions Architect
13 103 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
14 82 (3.95%) Software Developer
15 80 (3.85%) Lead Software Engineer
16 71 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
16 71 (3.42%) Lead Developer
17 67 (3.22%) Technical Leader
18 59 (2.84%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 538 (25.89%) .NET
2 448 (21.56%) React
3 428 (20.60%) Node.js
4 383 (18.43%) Terraform
5 375 (18.05%) Spring
6 340 (16.36%) Spring Boot
7 310 (14.92%) RESTful
8 287 (13.81%) REST
9 280 (13.47%) Kafka
10 241 (11.60%) ASP.NET
11 224 (10.78%) AngularJS
12 220 (10.59%) .NET Core
13 209 (10.06%) Vue
14 194 (9.34%) ASP.NET Core
15 121 (5.82%) Blazor
16 102 (4.91%) ASP.NET Web API
17 93 (4.48%) HTML
18 90 (4.33%) CSS
19 86 (4.14%) .NET Framework
20 85 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 663 (31.91%) Cloud Native
2 376 (18.09%) Distributed Systems
3 159 (7.65%) Product Ownership
4 114 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
5 107 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (3.80%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.60%) Public Cloud
8 50 (2.41%) AI Agents
9 49 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
10 47 (2.26%) Virtual Team
11 42 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
12 41 (1.97%) e-Learning
13 29 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
14 24 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (1.01%) Management Information System
15 21 (1.01%) Mobile App
16 20 (0.96%) Mainframe
16 20 (0.96%) Private Cloud
17 19 (0.91%) Algorithms
17 19 (0.91%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 141 (6.79%) Linux
2 48 (2.31%) Windows
3 27 (1.30%) CentOS
3 27 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.01%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Android
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.29%) AIX
7 6 (0.29%) Debian
7 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,104 (53.13%) CI/CD
2 995 (47.88%) Agile
3 747 (35.95%) Software Engineering
4 726 (34.94%) DevOps
5 573 (27.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 543 (26.13%) Mentoring
7 478 (23.00%) Event-Driven
8 448 (21.56%) AI
9 435 (20.93%) Test Automation
10 422 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 414 (19.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 394 (18.96%) Containerisation
13 371 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
14 313 (15.06%) Technical Leadership
15 298 (14.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 287 (13.81%) Scrum
17 251 (12.08%) Architectural Patterns
18 238 (11.45%) Observability
18 238 (11.45%) TDD
19 230 (11.07%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 737 (35.47%) Java
2 572 (27.53%) C#
3 506 (24.35%) SQL
4 457 (21.99%) JavaScript
5 438 (21.08%) Python
6 400 (19.25%) TypeScript
7 88 (4.23%) Go
8 58 (2.79%) Ruby
9 46 (2.21%) C++
10 38 (1.83%) Bash
11 31 (1.49%) PHP
12 27 (1.30%) PowerShell
13 25 (1.20%) Bicep
13 25 (1.20%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.06%) Rust
14 22 (1.06%) Scala
15 21 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 17 (0.82%) C
17 16 (0.77%) Groovy
18 14 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 322 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 222 (10.68%) SC Cleared
3 174 (8.37%) Degree
4 91 (4.38%) DV Cleared
5 81 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 79 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.49%) CISSP
9 30 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.91%) CISM
11 18 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.48%) MBA
15 8 (0.38%) PhD
16 7 (0.34%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 5 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
18 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
19 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (10.73%) QA
2 94 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.78%) WCAG
4 35 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.49%) GDPR
6 19 (0.91%) NIST
7 18 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 18 (0.87%) NCSC
8 11 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.43%) GRC
10 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.14%) IFRS
System Software
1 573 (27.57%) Docker
2 40 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.43%) NDS
4 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.048%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 629 (30.27%) Kubernetes
2 104 (5.00%) Grafana
3 103 (4.96%) Ansible
4 50 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.30%) Argo
5 27 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (0.96%) Puppet
7 16 (0.77%) Kibana
8 9 (0.43%) Cilium
9 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.24%) Podman
11 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.19%) Packer
12 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.096%) Rancher
14 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.048%) Consul
14 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
14 1 (0.048%) logstash
14 1 (0.048%) MIIS
Vendors
1 334 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 98 (4.72%) Google
3 73 (3.51%) Oracle
4 45 (2.17%) Splunk
5 42 (2.02%) OpenAI
6 28 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 28 (1.35%) Okta
7 26 (1.25%) IBM
8 25 (1.20%) ForgeRock
9 24 (1.15%) AppDynamics
10 22 (1.06%) Databricks
11 17 (0.82%) OneLogin
12 14 (0.67%) Adobe
12 14 (0.67%) SAP
13 13 (0.63%) OpenText
13 13 (0.63%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.58%) CyberArk
14 12 (0.58%) Mistral
14 12 (0.58%) Salesforce
14 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow